Erdogan adviser dismisses Saudi explanation of Khashoggi killing

An adviser to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday dismissed a Saudi assertion that Jamal Khashoggi died in a fight in the kingdom's Istanbul's consulate, one of several accounts of the journalist's disappearance to have emerged from Riyadh. "One cannot help but wonder how there could have been a 'fistfight' between 15 young expert fighters ... and a 60-year-old Khashoggi, alone and defenceless," said Yasin Aktay, an adviser to Erdogan in his AK Party. "It explains no aspect of the incident according to all the information reached - on the contrary, it leads to even more questions," Aktay, who is also a close friend of Khashoggi, wrote in a column in Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak.